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Differential response of three large mammal species to human recreation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Outdoor recreation benefits local economies, environmental education, and public health and wellbeing, but it can also adversely affect local ecosystems. Human presence in natural areas alters feeding and reproductive behaviors, physiology, and population structure in many wildlife species, often resulting in cascading effects through entire ecolog...

Apes and agriculture

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Non-human great apes – chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans – are threatened by agricultural expansion, particularly from rice, cacao, cassava, maize, and oil palm cultivation. Agriculture replaces and fragments great ape habitats, bringing them closer to humans and often resulting in conflict. Though the impact of agriculture on great ap...

Social-ecological drivers of metropolitan residents’ comfort living with wildlife

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Introduction Human-wildlife coexistence in cities depends on how residents perceive and interact with wildlife in their neighborhoods. An individual’s attitudes toward and responses to wildlife are primarily shaped by their subjective cognitive judgments, including multi-faceted environmental values and perceptions of risks or safety. However, expe...

Depredation influences anglers’ perceptions on coastal shark management and conservation in the United States Gulf of Me...

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Overfishing, habitat degradation, and climate change have caused declines in shark populations throughout the world’s oceans. However, in the United States Gulf of Mexico (GoM), populations of several coastal shark species are starting to stabilize following decades of successful regulations and enforcement. The stabilization of coastal shark popul...

Advances in cryopreservation of Syzygium maire (swamp maire, maire tawake) zygotic embryos, a critically endangered tree...

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Introduction Syzygium maire is a threatened Myrtaceae tree species endemic to New Zealand. Due to its highly recalcitrant seed, cryopreservation is the only viable long-term ex situ conservation option for this species. Our previous attempts to cryopreserve the embryonic axis (EAs) of S. maire were unsuccessful but did provide a better understandin...

Framework features enabling faster establishment and better management of privately protected areas in New South Wales, ...

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

In response to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Australia has committed to protecting 30 per cent of lands and oceans for nature conservation by 2030. Privately protected areas are vital to meeting this target and establishing an ecologically representative and well-connected National Reserve ...

Including Rural America in academic conservation science

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Predators in the city: large carnivores in urban landscapes of the Anthropocene

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Impacts of a non-indigenous ecosystem engineer, the American beaver (Castor canadensis), in a biodiversity hotspot

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Uneven transmission of traditional knowledge and skills in a changing wildmeat system: Yangambi, Democratic Republic of ...

Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Introduction Indigenous communities typically hold diverse traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of their social-ecological system. Much of this knowledge is embodied as skills related to subsistence practices within a specific landscape and is associated with community values and norms. Ways of knowing often reflect the different activities tradi...